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Do you feel both a gathering in (of yourself, your love for family and wider and wider and wider) and a widening out (to touch a larger and deeper reality)? Then you are elder-like.

:- Doug.

I don’t know your language, but I encourage your spirituality.

:- Doug.

Why are you drawn to this being-doing? To playfulness and giveaway? What’s afoot? How can you make the most of this part of life?

:- Doug.

Learners, teachers, explorers, volunteers: why are you doing these larger things? Are you larger in your accumulating years?

:- Doug.

Some want to learn, to attend symphony (experience beauty, evoke beauty), volunteer for something meaningful for them (be larger, mist-ify).

:- Doug.

These years—more than play?

:- Doug.

Who am I and what am I about, now that I’m older?

:- Doug.

Why won’t life settle down? I thought now I could relax!

:- Doug.

What is newfound in old age?

:- Doug.

Is there value in old age?

:- Doug.

These intriguing, confusing, precious elder years.

:- Doug.

The mystery of becoming an elder

:- Doug.

Will you miss your chance to become an elder? Many are called….

:- Doug.

Having money (or more accurately, it having you) does not make you valuable.

:- Doug.

The wisdom of not knowing is essential.

:- Doug.

The new old

:- Doug.

Still learning, still growing!

:- Doug.

Unexpectedly elder! And for 30 years!

:- Doug.

Your development after adulthood

:- Doug.

What’s the issue for elders? The felt need?

:- Doug.

Why elders matter more now.

:- Doug.

Why do we elders not expect respect?

:- Doug.

Senior citizen, older adult, elderly, aged, elder, old fart: which would you like to be?

:- Doug.